Tuesday, December 20, 2016

My 2016 Masters Entries

Hi all,

The past few years, I have entered the Scrapbooking Memories Masters competition. So many talented scrapbookers here in Australia and I love the final chosen masters! I wasn't successful (this time), but I really loved the pages I created, and I managed to receive an honourable mention for one of my pages.

Anyway, today I'd like to share my entries and how I created them.

TASK 1: SINGLE LAYOUT – 5X7in PHOTO

Layout 1 Title: Bucketful of Joy

Note: I received an Honourable Mention for this layout....

About
this project:

Everyone loves the beach, especially my girl
Jessie, and this photo captures so much of her spirit and joy. I combined some
awesome patterned papers as well as some mixed media techniques, creating a
colour scheme to perfectly match the photo. I also used mediums of the colour
sprays and Colour Shimmer Dusts, to create my own colour-matched embellishments
with the paper flower and Charms Creations arrow& tab. The pops of turquoise,
blue and white and small elements of copper, look great against the neutral
background.

For the past few months I have become a bower
bird, saving a little pile of unconventional items that I thought could be used
on a scrapbook page. When my daughter’s library bag broke, I instantly saw
potential in the lettering on the vinyl bag. Really, the entire page was
designed around the large YEAH that I cut out from the bag! And of course it
was perfect to go with these photos of Jessie and her cousin laughing and
making funny faces! I tried to have a mixed balance of girl and boy
embellishments and I love that you can combine flowers and skulls to achieve
this!

When I started creating this layout I was
determined to incorporate all the colours of the rainbow without it being
overwhelming. So I designed this page from a white base, with circular elements
and keep it balanced with plenty of white space. I brought in all the colours
of the rainbow, firstly with watercolour paints and shimmer dusts mixed with
water, then with a mix of small colourful embellishments. I balanced the bright
colour with the black striped background and vellum. This sweet (and small)
photo of my 3 girls was just perfect finish to the page.

Some stories just have to be told. And while this
lets people see right inside my very imperfect marriage, personally, it was
great for me to realise that with all we had been through, we had survived. Now
that is real love! I chose a selection of photos over our 20 years together to
illustrate this story. By printing the photos in black and white, I got to
create with one of my favourite colour schemes! And I really wanted to combine
mixed media and patterned papers because that is the best of both worlds!

About Me

I am a wife of David and Mum of three girls, Abby, 14; Olivia, 12 and Jessie,10. I am a Speech Pathologist, currently working 3 days a week in my own business from home. 2 days a week I am an inclusive technology consultant, doing much work with iPads. All my spare time, even if it is late at night, is spent scrapbooking!!!